To Kill A Mockingbird Shoes

“Before you start to judge me, step into my shoes and walk the life I’m living and if you get as far as I am, just maybe you will see how strong I really am.” This anonymous quote shows the true meaning of stepping into someone else's shoes. In the novel ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee, we learn about Jean Louise Finch, also known as Scout. She lives in a small town in Maycomb County, Alabama, during the depression. Scout lives with her brother Jem and her father Atticus. Her father, Atticus, is a lawyer for the town. He is put on a case with a black man, Tom Robinson. During the trail, Scout has to learn about the unfair racial discriminations in Maycomb. Throughout the book there's a man named Boo Radley, who all the children are very

Atticus told Scout “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…until you climb in his skin and walk around in it.” (39). When Miss Caroline comes to Maycomb to teach, she brings her way of teaching. Miss Caroline assumes that all the students don't know how to read and gets upset because she doesn't know what to do with Scout. Scout struggles with this because she learned how to read from the newspaper with Atticus. Miss Caroline is overwhelmed with being the new teacher and having a student who knows how to read already. Scout also knows more about the town than she does. She told Miss Caroline about the Ewells but she didn’t understand and got mad. When Scout went home that night she told Atticus about it. Scout has learned not to judge Miss Caroline based on her first experience with

Dubose wasn’t just an old, crabby lady. She was trying to quit her morphine addiction, even though she knew she would die in the process. Atticus wanted Scout and Jem to know what real courage was. “Its when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyways and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do”. (149) Atticus wanted to teach them that a hero isn't the one holding the gun, it's the one who's a fighter. Scout and Jem learn that she was probably crabby and mean because she was hurting inside and before that they didn't understand but now they do.
The last example of standing in someone else's shoes is when Scout is standing on Radley's porch after walking him back to his house. That was the first time Boo has been out of his house in a very long time. He came out to save Jem and Scout from being attacked by Bob Ewell. This made Scout realize that Boo was not a bad guy and she said that “Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing in Radley's porch was enough.” (374) After standing on Boo Radley's porch, she understands what the world is like from Boo's